The callers choose the topics during Open Forum, peppering our guests with questions on every aspect of Catholic life and faith, the moral life, and even philosophical topics that touch on general religious belief.
Questions Covered:
- 07:05 - How do you reconcile paragraph 1704 in the Catechism of the Catholic Church with John 6:44? Regarding total depravity.
- 15:20 - Is a marriage between a Christian and non-baptized valid?
- 17:56 - Catholics are told that they are not supposed to keep cremated remains so why are relics permissible?
- 22:38 - One of my agnostic friends asks, “if I’m taking birth control to regulate my hormones, why not take it when I have no intention of being sexual active?”
- 28:39 - What is the easiest way to explain to Protestants that a Christian can lose his salvation?
- 36:25 - How does the Catholic Church explain the veneration of Saints that were not in communion with the Church?
- 42:47 - How do you evangelize someone who is totally ambivalent to God and is perfectly happy?
- 46:50 - How can we talk to people who want to remove the gender pronouns? How do we reiterate that we are not genderless beings?
- 52:10 - What do we do with the remains of miscarried fetuses?
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